Halloween Vocabulary from Wayne Goodspirit (y-dialect)

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Happy Halloween Everyone!

Thanks to Wayne Goodspirit for sharing this list of Halloween vocabulary last year on Facebook, and to Sol for posing for this special-occasion portrait (as well as recording the vocabulary, divided into three audio files).

One Response to Halloween Vocabulary from Wayne Goodspirit (y-dialect)

Thanks to Diana Steinhauer who has written with concern about the word for “witch” used here – and a subject (vocabulary and cosmology) worth further discussion:

“Simply, I take huge objection to the use of the word kīskwēhkaniskwēw to be publicly posted in a forum that has as its audience, language teachers, to mean witch. It is part of our spiritually grounded cosmology that was known to the missionaries and clergy who have accorded a ‘heathen and pagan’ interpretation to its use.”